Although these assertions have long been recognized as problematic, their broad implications have not been fully examined. |
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Unfortunately, too many of the talking heads parroted rather than questioned those assertions. |
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Its 50 pages are filled with so many assertions, half-truths and qualifications as to render it worthless. |
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John signed the management representation letter without qualifying the positive assertions about the company's tax filings and liabilities. |
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Local security sources could have acquainted him with these facts if he had asked before making his assertions last Thursday. |
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Actually being in the act of changing a wheel, providing a copy of a spares receipt are another couple of good things to back up your assertions. |
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Instead of packing a sad and blaming your problems on me, how about you get a backbone and defend your assertions? |
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The author approaches British labor history judiciously, avoiding extreme statements or assertions of revolutionary changes. |
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Davie qualifies bold assertions and subordinate escape-clauses, paradoxical epithets and sentences opening with an adversative link. |
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Many of Rogers' assertions and specific rebuttals are best answered by Kornbluh himself. |
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Its contents consist largely of warnings, remonstrances, assertions, arguments in favor of certain doctrines, narratives for enforcing morals. |
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In the past, I might have struggled to join in, concealing my ambivalence with uncertain assertions. |
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All they have got is the language and these phony assertions about being anti-racist, and they use those things as signs of their intentions. |
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And contrary to some assertions, they have published peer-reviewed literature on the subject. |
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The power of Darnton's essay lay in his assemblage of familiar assertions about the origins and transmission of fairy tales. |
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One need not evaluate the scientific evidence for the assertions made to question the tenability of the propositions. |
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In response to all the above-mentioned cases, I published critical scrutinies of Korpi's assertions. |
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The autumn air is thick with assertions that the Prime Minister's luck is finally running out. |
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You can make a lot of thudding assertions like that, but it doesn't make them true. |
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Or do you interpret it as more twisted and ironic, a bitter medley of weather criticism, tourist blurb, and the locals' proud assertions? |
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I do not consider that there is any need to deal seriatim with the various assertions that have been advanced by the applicants. |
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With this information in hand, we now turn to several of the assertions in Isom's article. |
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Just last year, pinkos raised a stink over the NCERT's deleting of certain offensive and unauthenticated assertions from history books. |
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Our common historical portrait of him consists mostly of negative assertions that he was irascible, uncivil, and secretive. |
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In fact, he offered no medical evidence at all to support his sweeping, general assertions of disability and unemployability. |
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We can let all the other imprecise statements and ungrounded assertions go, but you should at least try to address these points. |
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Too much of what we read is sloganeering, consisting of bald assertions founded on unexamined choices. |
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Let's just list some of the outrageous assertions and omissions in the news today. |
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Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless. |
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A number of entries also contain assertions that are unfounded or highly speculative. |
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In making these assertions, I am not being a curmudgeon, a whiner or a spoilsport. |
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I cannot produce statistical data of vehicle numbers and velocities to corroborate these assertions, but I have no doubts. |
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Making vaguely related assertions in response to an argument is not a counter-argument. |
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It is only a failure if we think that individuals should be detained on mere assertions and not on hard proof. |
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In spite of vociferous, chauvinistic assertions, there is no New Zealand culture. |
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In reality, union representation harms many workers, contrary to the assertions of the proponents of the superior bargaining power fallacy. |
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Many critics of contemporary American poetry have mistaken these assertions for an advocacy of impersonality, obscurity, or evasion. |
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According to the eminent modern philosopher Karl Popper, the defining characteristic of science is that its assertions are falsifiable. |
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But evidence has now emerged that contradicts the USDA assertions that the infected cow was a downer. |
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What we have got from both camps is a farrago of half-truths and unproven assertions that are repeated even when shown to be blatantly unfounded. |
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His letter is a collection of false assertions, distortions, innuendos, contradictions, and misreadings. |
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For these assertions are instructive just because they reveal some of the less obvious effects of a denial of human rights. |
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Perhaps at the root of strong assertions of male and female differences is the fear of so identifying the two as to make them interchangeable. |
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Both assertions are statements of artistic merit, ranking performers and composers on a continuum from the worthless to the genius. |
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I was appalled by his sheer lack of professional introspection in the face of substantial evidence that contradicted his assertions. |
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As I have explained she has produced no documentary or other evidence to corroborate those bald assertions. |
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Yet, as Media Matters pointed out at the time, nothing in the report corroborates such assertions. |
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But it also has a special obligation to justify its actions by principles that transcend the assertions of preponderant power. |
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The weight to be given by the jury to the appellant's denials and assertions was a matter for them. |
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This group continues to make assertions without grounds or substantive proof. |
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Public assertions of such discreditable conduct threaten reputation and professional livelihood. |
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Or, certain theological assertions are stated, completely disjoined from their congregational, ethical implications. |
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Thus, he does not recognize sentential compounds, such as conjunctions and disjunctions, as single assertions. |
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Of course, we will see in our learned friends' submission whether they dispute our repeated assertions that the evidence was uncontested. |
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Extreme assertions of diversity, such as Kallen's, imply a kind of racial or ethnic essentialism and separatism, not merely cultural pluralism. |
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There are many obscure and dubious mathematical assertions, as well as downright errors. |
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This, despite their assertions of moral rectitude, implies that it is hard to make an informed judgment on an issue such as this with so much disinformation flying around. |
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Her ads contain several inaccurate assertions of fact that should be corrected. |
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But both assertions over-stated and misstated the case because of the great gulf between them and the people whose faith ensured Church survival and possible revival. |
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While vignettes are offered and brief quotes support analytic assertions, more emphasis could have been placed on the words and actions of Habitat participants. |
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He kept encasing his answers in sedimentary layers of facts and assertions. |
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There is just no substitute for having someone who thoroughly disagrees with you pin you down and force you to defend each and every one of your assertions. |
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At which point certain members of the audience could restrain themselves no longer and began to heckle and then question these assertions whilst he was in full flood. |
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Other than a few academically toned articles, I have yet to meet or read anyone who will actually back up their assertions with references to the books. |
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The evidence on both sides rather took the form of dogmatic assertions. |
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The government's working group on chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis wove patients' assertions into the scientific research in its report. |
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Like after the statements have had their desired effect to sway opinion and to make subjective assertions become, in the public mind, objective fact. |
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For the non-greenhorn, though, there is fun to be had in the smattering of fearless, at times audacious, assertions. |
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Intersectionality might be more broadly useful as a way of mediating the tension between assertions of multiple identity and the ongoing necessity of group politics. |
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None of these studies, campaigns, or assertions should be enough to sway public opinion towards or against pot. |
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The company's assertions in its books of account did not establish the indebtedness of the appellants or any payment of money in discharge of that indebtedness. |
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The decline in assertions of authorship further manifests itself in the wording of contemporary title pages and in the content and typography of theatrical playbills. |
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Such dubious assertions are by turns annoying and unintentionally amusing. |
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These sorts of assertions are good because they are hard to falsify. |
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The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, despite government assertions to the contrary, also receives a pasting as it is perceived as disadvantageous to US pharmaceutical firms. |
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By the time the number of examples of myths, false assertions and cases of deliberate disinformation had reached 40 I reckoned it was time to publish them. |
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Darling disputed these assertions of fact, but there were no proceedings in which he could be given a hearing or the matters resolved after full consideration. |
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Both assertions are only believable if the context is ignored. |
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Other assertions in Pocket Facts lack any attribution, which avoids mangling sources. |
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Dr. Rummel claims that my assertions are falsified in my own data. |
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No one should ever use the role of teacher to demean the ideas of others or insist on the absoluteness of an opinion, much less press erroneous assertions. |
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And when I checked the footnotes and had the library pull the sources, the majority of the assertions proved to be wrong, incomplete in important ways, or unsupported. |
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But Joe's assertions of fact about what happened four years ago were qualified by his similar assertion that he has a very bad recollection of what happened four years ago. |
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It's filled with unsupported assertions, deceptive qualifiers, logical fallacies and rhetorical tricks so cheap they would make a trial lawyer blush. |
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In fact, all sorts of theories and information are surfacing, and it is increasingly clear that many of these assertions and allegations are patently false or unverified. |
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The recent assertions by Dr. Peretz are therefore distressing to many members of our community, and understandably so. |
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In some cases, commentators make assertions that are patently false. |
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The British writer Melanie Phillips, no conservative, sees in such casual assertions a breathtaking illiberalism and inversion of traditional values. |
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Assuming arguendo that those assertions are factually true, we find respondent's claim to be without legal merit. |
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In opposition to their assertions, Williams argues that univocity is not only true, but it is also salutary. |
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Although he is often listed as a saint, this is not confirmed by Bede and it has recently been argued that such assertions are incorrect. |
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But assertions, speculation, and testimonials do not substitute for evidence. |
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De Situ Britanniae generally followed Ptolemy's map but made novel assertions regarding Damnonii towns. |
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During the Great Depression, Adolf Hitler condemned his earlier smoking habit as a waste of money, and later with stronger assertions. |
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The assertions of Chinese philosophy began to integrate concepts of Western philosophy, as steps toward modernization. |
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Other assertions are that maps are inherently biased and that we search for metaphor and rhetoric in maps. |
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He contributed to the debate prior to the 2005 United Kingdom General Election criticising assertions that immigration was a cause of crime. |
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The major distinction between legal determinations and scientific assertions lies in the concept of certainty. |
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The decline of Bracton's influence in the middle of the fourteenth century coincides with Parliament's first assertions of its powers. |
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Nevertheless, in many variations, quotings, and paraphrasings, gigantic assertions gained currency. |
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Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy. |
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Many will doubt my assertions of Western trophy quality matching that of more hallowed whitetail habitats. |
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Duch has denied assertions by prosecutors that he played a central role in the Khmer Rouge regime s iron-fisted rule. |
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Examine SAML assertions, as well as two specific SAML Web browser profiles. |
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A fixation on the former leads to crude, mechanistic Freudianism, the latter to egoistic and naive assertions of self-sufficiency. |
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Again, the left-wing economists were supportive of such autarky and there is no evidence otherwise apart from unprovable assertions. |
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The book is a delight to read, as Joeckel progresses through a carefully constructed series of definitions and assertions toward understanding Lewis as a public intellectual. |
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Promela model has no assertions or temporal logic LTL formula. |
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Moreover, there is no agreement among anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and archaeologists as to the time-frame involved in assertions such as those made in Van der Peet. |
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The study of defense mechanisms will remain incomplete so long as they are regarded chiefly as wardings off, renunciations and negative assertions. |
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To say that the founder of Deconstruction survives this shambolic attack composed of equal parts unargued assertions and wishful thinking is to put things far too kindly. |
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This undeath of some fairly ugly rhetoric suggests that, despite the fervent assertions of some political commentators, the United States is nowhere near post-racial. |
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But in Minister Rajab, their omissions and false assertions will not go unnoticed for as a verbal counterpuncher, she is a veritable Muhammad Ali. |
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A few offer lists of the assertions of the above authorities. |
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However, despite these assertions, the term can be found in the writings of New Englanders, and was frequently used by the press in the 19th century. |
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Academic authors cite sources they have used, in order to support their assertions and arguments and to help readers find more information on the subject. |
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Fabbri finds that Rorty's assertions that Derrida reduced philosophy to a collection of irrelevancies themselves do not have sufficient epistemological or political evidence. |
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